The MySQL Enterprise Audit plug-in is part of the
MySQL Enterprise Edition (available through a paid
license). Basically, Enterprise Audit tracks everything that is
happening on your MySQL server, and can be used to protect/detect
the misuse of information, and to meet popular compliance
regulations including HIPAA, …

I’m happy to announce that a new version of the MariaDB Audit
Plugin is available. Version 1.1.5 can be downloaded here. As you can see the Audit Plugin is available
from SkySQL, who has developed the plugin.

However, now with the Audit Plugin being GA for a couple of
months since 7th of November last year and customers using it in
production, SkySQL has decided to contribute the Audit Plugin to
the MariaDB project and I’m happy to tell you that starting from
MariaDB versions 5.5.37 and 10.0.9 the Audit Plugin will be
included by default. Notice …

Zyme,
based in Redwood Shores, California, is the global leading
provider of Channel Data Management (CDM) solutions to companies
selling through indirect channels. For high tech and consumer
electronic products alone, over $1 trillion USD worth of goods
are flowing through those indirect sales channels every year.
However, when companies sell products through multi-tier channel
partners and retailers around the world, it has proven to be
challenging in acquiring global, standardized channel inventory
and sales data cost-effectively. As a result, companies lacking
of such critical information often miss the …

By going to the download section of SkySQL website
some users have noticed “MariaDB Audit Plugin”. This
auditing feature for MySQL has been requested by more and more
customers. Legal constraints make it mandatory for more and more
companies to keep logging information about database access and
activity.

You keep using that option. I do not think it means what
you think it means.

Perhaps like many users, I had certain assumptions about what
max_connect_errors really does – but in looking closely as part
of investigating the new
PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA.HOST_CACHE table in MySQL 5.6, I learned
that some very fundamental elements had escaped my notice.
I’m writing this blog post to help others who hold similar …

In a previous post, I described how to leverage
PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA in MySQL 5.6 to identify connections which had
not been properly closed by the client. One possible cause
of connections being closed without explicit request from the
client is when another process issues a KILL CONNECTION command:

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